Boots today ‘cause it’s autumn and I live in Colorado.

People who do this are . . . not great.

Share your favorite black and white movie.

The International Day of Sign Languages celebrates the linguistic identities of the Deaf community and all who use sign language. John Bulwer was the first person in Britain to advocate for the education of deaf people. His 1644 book explores the communicative and rhetorical power of hand gestures.

It me.

My students told me I don't have to apologize for Wordsworth and Coleridge.

Can I borrow some money?

It occurs to me that few (or none?) of the Romantics would suit the “marry” category of “Fuck,Marry, Kill”.

Are the items owned by those who have been raptured up for grabs? I could really use a new lawn mower.

STC's "The Nightingale" is so, so good.

One can't help but wonder how many people might be fed, clothed, and housed with $100B.

Today's #MiniatureMonday is a Hebrew manuscript of prayers for the time of plague. Consists of selections from the Psalms and the "Parashat ha-Ḳeṭoret" (the Biblical and Talmudic passages detailing the creation of the incense in the Temple) (UPenn CAJS Rar Ms 656) 🔗: https://bit.ly/4pyGfj1

the @folger.edu opens their long-term and short-term fellowship scheme for 2026. Includes book in progress fellowships, artistic research fellowships, and public humanities fellowships www.folger.edu/research/the...

"Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun; Conspiring with him how to load and bless With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run;" -Keats, from "To Autumn"

On my way, my song, my day!

You know what, I feel pretty lucky to have gotten to go to #LilithFair.

What's old is new again.

I guess it's a significant birthday. I wake each day looking for a reason to keep going. I hope I live to see better times.

I guess my astrological season is ending soon. Not that I have any clue what any of that crap means.

Nostalgia really is a disease.

Actually, Frankenstein is a student success at the Venice film festival

Inside you are two wolves.

I've found that most non-Americans have been pretty kind to Americans traveling abroad. They know the gov't is not the whole country. As one Frenchman told me, "we all hate Macron, too."

#Austen scholars -- best essays on the publication/revision/textual materiality of _Persuasion_? Thanks!

Just put an "AI" notice in my fall syllabi and now I fee dirty.

Given that we've cut support for education, the arts, public news, food for the poor, support for people w/ disabilities, healthcare, infrastructure, scientific research, & housing in this country maybe it's time to just cut the budget for the Department of Defense. There's nothing left to defend.

Either this booster is working or I actually have Covid.

Robert Redford was a Red Sox fan! www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/16/m...

All of Jane Austen, obviously.

Style lessons from Robert Redford, one of the most stylish men in the last century. 🧵

When journalism was cool. And risked everything to challenge power.

Got both my flu and Covid boosters. Take that!

It's cool to see folks giving "Sneakers" some love. The movie was written and directed by Phil Adlen Robinson, a Union College alum, and the film has several nods to #UnionCollege.

Robert Redford, R.I.P.

Cat won’t let me leave.

Ok, I’ll bite. What’s my one grand passion, Jenny Holzer?

Man, things are getting even weirder in academia than I thought they had.

My cartoon for this week’s @guardian books. p.s. this week I am on a USA/Canada tour with my new book. Details and preorder links at www.tomgauld.com

Bess and I are starting the weekend off in the backyard. A stick for her and a beer for me.

My editor while I'm struggling to finish a writing project.

Is it me, or does everything feel harder lately? Everything darker, more ominous, more challenging. I don't remember things being this hard (and I've been through some shit). And I know I have it better than most . . . but . . . Is it just me?

#JaneAusten and food? Yes, please.

It's weird seeing twins in the wild because it makes me miss my brother, and I think, "I know something you both know that none of these normies know."

www.denverpost.com/2025/09/11/e... Shooter died from self-inflicted gunshots; two others shot. One remains in critical condition. All were teenagers. This picture is of parents reuniting with their children at an elementary school near Evergreen (which is standard since Columbine).

Been thinking a lot about Richard Slotkin's _Gunfighter Nation: The Myth of the Frontier in 20th-Century America_ lately.

Fawn Hall?

Huck doesn’t know what to say either.

Please make it all stop. 😞

Intellectual “work” is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward. The poorest paid architect, engineer, general, author, sculptor, painter, lecturer, advocate, legislator, actor, preacher, singer is constructively in heaven when he is at work -Twain, Conn Yankee